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      They aren’t entirely literate, so writing is awkward for them.

      Edit: And I actually don’t mean that as a dig. A huge percentage of the American populace is functionally illiterate or close to it.

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          Same with mine. Mine is ugly, but it is technically usually readable. But to figure mine out you don’t have to relearn everything you thought you knew about how life works. With them you never know what word will come next with their word salad, but when I write something that’s not readable the meaning will be able to be guessed or surmised.

          But then, who actually handwrites anything anymore? Other than a signature I mean. And I’m not just talking about the objective waste of existence that is cursive (at least at the moment, I have opinions on that too tho). Even basic hand writing is all but completely useless now. And the little things it is still used for are fading day by day.

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            )I still write things by hand because it seems to engage another part of my brain to help me remember. I can remember most of a shopping list that I’ve written down, even if I forgot the list itself. I have so little patience for forming words, and cursive actually can be written so much faster than print once it becomes second nature. I’ve fallen into a weird hybrid of cursive and print that defaults to whichever letter is able to be formed fastest. If you never got to the point where cursive happened “accidentally” then yeah I guess it can seem pointless, but it can be super useful with enough proficiency.

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              I guess that’s true now that you mention it. I never studied throughout high school but if I took notes on it I just knew it. 99% of the notes I took never even got looked at once after moving on to the next page, but I knew that stuff. Maybe this kind of thing is one of the last few uses to die. And this in and of itself won’t prevent it from becoming extinct eventually.

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    I’m trying to decide if my favorite part about sovcits is their absolute cognitive dissonance, or the fact that they have a supreme knack for cherry-picking parts of US law they expect to have applied to or for them when they want to omit everything else in it.

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      They are going to be so pissed when they find out that the postal service can reject their letter because the sending or receiving party does not have a mailbox of an acceptable shape, size or made of acceptable material.

      U.S. Postal Service STD-7B01

      Postal Service, Code of Federal Regulations 39 CFR Part 111, Standard 7A, Mailboxes, City and Rural Curbside

      See, I can look up random laws on Wikipedia too!

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      WITH PREJUDICE*

      Or was it WITHOUT? All that magic mumbo-jumbo is so confusing.

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    Hi, quick question. Is this all this sub is now? Sovcit posts? It’s getting pretty fucking old really fucking fast.

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        Blood dries very dark red or brown on paper. It might look different in person but based on the pic I don’t think it’s blood, just red ink. That said I wouldn’t blame anyone handling it for putting gloves on because whoever sent this is clearly unhinged.